Bringing Spreadsheets and Maps Together with ZeeMaps

Course Overview

About Tutorials

Tutorials offer step-by-step instructions to projects 30-minutes or less. They are guides to various subjects that applies to most audiences.

One spreadsheet plus one program equals one Google Map with custom place markers.

ZeeMaps is great for mapping lists. Create one spreadsheet with your list of addresses, urls, photos, and videos. Designate those items to a location and import the spreadsheet to ZeeMaps. ZeeMaps will automatically mark a Google Map with your location and content.

After you've added all the information you want and imported it to ZeeMaps, you'll have a map that can be easily published onto a web page or blog.

What Will I Learn:

How to create a spreadsheet with your information
How to work with a Comma Separated Value (CSV) file
How to import information to ZeeMaps
How to customize ZeeMaps for your ideal Google Map

Who should take this course:

Anyone who wants an easy solution to add text, photos, and videos in a customized Google Map.

Abbie Fentress Swanson is a freelance student reporter for KALW 91.7 FM in San Francisco, and the editor and publisher of dirtypop, an independent magazine about women and LBGTQ people working in music, art and pop culture. Prior to her radio and magazine work, Swanson worked in book publishing and as a labor reporter in New York City. She interned on the News Desk at The Patriot Ledger in Boston, and has traveled to Egypt, Qatar and India on reporting trips. Swanson is now in her second year at Berkeley's Graduate Journalism School, and is a native of central Virginia.

Training Partner:

The Knight Digital Media Center is a partnership of the University of California at Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.